The building is the headquarters of the Barcelona Bar Association.
Pau Casades was a wealthy industrialist dedicated to the manufacture of prints, he had his factory and residence in the Raval and decided to move his home to the upper part of the city on land he owned, commissioning the construction of a mansion by the master builder Agustí Serra i Pujals. The works began in 1881 and ended in 1885. In 1923 the Barcelona Bar Association bought the building and in 1925 they moved from their former headquarters in the Casa de L’Ardiaca in the Gothic Quarter, to the Palau Casades.
Building:
Classicist in style with a rectangular floor plan and a central patio covered with a skylight. It consists of 4 floors; basements, ground floor and two upper floors, the facade is crowned by four sculptures related to the world of law; Alfonso X, Sant Ramón de Penyafort, San Ivo and Ramón Berenguer IV.
Library:
It has more than 350,000 volumes, being the most important private legal library in Europe, with a fund of ancient works where we can find; parchments, manuscripts and incunabula.
